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KNOX MANUAL LABOR COLLEGE. 



Sec. 1. Be it enacted hy tlhp people of ths State of 
Illinois, represented in the General Assemhly^ That 
John Waters, John G. Sanburn, Mathew Chambers, 
Krastus Swift, Nehemiah H. Losey, (jeorge H. Wright, 
Ralph H. Hurlbiit, Geo. W. Gale, Nebemiah West, 
Thomas Simmons and Parnach Owen, be and hereby 
are created a body politic and corporate, to be styled 
and known by the name of the Trustees of Knox Man- 
ual Labor College, and by that name and style to re- 
ma'n, and have ]')erpetual succession. The said College 
shall be located on section No. fifteen, in township No. 
eleven north, of range one east, of the Fourth Principal 
Meridian, in the County of Knox. The number of trus- 
tees shall not exceed twenty five, including the President 
of the College, who shall be ex-officio a member of the 
board of trustees. For the present the individuals above 
named shall constitute the board of trustees with power 
to fill the remaining vacmcies at their discretion. 



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Sec. 2. The object of said corporation shall he to 
promote the c:eneral interests of literatnre, and to qual- 
ify young men in the best manner for the various pro- 
fessional and business occupations of society, by carry- 
ing into Qffect a thorough systcMn of nient.-il, moral and 
physical education, and so reduce the exp-nses of .«ueh 
education, by manual labor and other means, as shall 
bring it within the reach of every young man of indas- 
ti-y and promise. 

Sec. 3- The corpoi'ate pow(^r=5 hnr-eby ))e-towpd, 
shall be such only as are essential, to the attainment of | 
said object, and such as are usnally confenvcj on similar; 
bodies corporate, viz: to have perpetual succes^Io!!, to | 
make contracts, to sue and be sued, y.leml and be im-j 
pleaded, to grant and receive iti its c^'rporate name, and 
to do all other acts as natural persons may, to accept, 
acquii'e, purchase or sell y)roperty, r-'^al, [tersonal, or 
mixed, in all lawful ways, to u-^<', employ, manage, and 
dispose of all such property, and all money belonging to 
said corporation, iu such mantier as shall seem to the 
trustees best adapted to promote the above mentioned 
objec^s, to have a common seal and to altei- or change i 
the same, to make such by-laws for its regulation as 
are not inconsistent with the constitution and Jaws of 
the United States or this State, and to confer on such 
persons as may be considered worth\\ such a'-ademi- 
cal and honorary degrees as are usually conferred l-y 
similar institutions. 

Sec. 4. The trustees shall have power from time to 
time to prescribe and regulate the course o4" study to 
be pursued in said college, and in the prep.iratory de- 
partments attached thereto, to fix the rate of tuition, 
room rent and other colleoe ex[)enses, to appoint in- 
structors, professors, and such other officers and agents 

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as mav be needed la manao^Ins: the concerns; of the in- 
stitntion, to define theh- powers, duties, and employ- 
ments, to fix their compensation, to displace and re- 
move either of the instructor^, c fficars or ng-ents, as they 
may deem the interests of the colleixe require; to fill all 
vacancies amono^ th*^ instructors, officers, and aorents, to 
erect necessary huihlings, to purchase books, chemical ! 
and philosophical apparatus and otht^r suitable raeanr, of 
instruction, to establish and regulate the proposed sys- 
tem of manual labor, iu the way whirh they shall deem 
best adapted to promote the object nfsaid corporation,! 
to mike rules for the general management of the affaiisj 
of the college, and for the regulation of the conduct ofj 
the students, and to establish vvhen they shall deem it 
expedient, and the means can be procured, professor- 
ships of la\T and medicine. 

Sec. 5. If any trustee shall be elected president of 
said college, his former place as trustee shall be consid- 
ered vacant, aiid shall be filled bv the board of trus- 
tf'e^^. The trustees for the time beings shall have power 
to remove any trustee from office for any dishonorable 
or criminal conduct, jivovulpji, Unit no such removal' 
shall take place without giving to such trustee notice 
of the charges exhibited against him, and an opportu- 
nity to defend himself before the board, nor unless two 
thirds of the whole number of Trustees for th(^, time 
being, shall concur iu such removal. '! lie trustees in 
order to have perpetual succession, shall have power as 
often as a trustee shall be removed fi'om office, die, i-e- 
sign ,or remove out of the State, to ;ip]>oiut a T'ej*ident of 
this State to fill the vacancy in the board. ^'A niajority 
of the Trustees for the time being, shall be a quorum to 
do business. 

Skc. G. The trustees shall faithfully appl 3' all fnmis 



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collected or hereafter to be collected for said college, ac- 
cording to tlieir best judgment, in erecting suitable 
buildings, in compensating the necessary instructors, 
professors, officers and ac:ents, and in procuring books, 
maps, charts globes, philosophical, chemical and other 
apparatus necessary in the promotion of sound learning 
in said institution ; provided^ That in case any donation, 
devise or bequest, shall be made, for particular purpo- 
ses, accordant with the objects of the institution, and the 
trustees shall except the same, every such donation, de- 
vise, or bequest shall be expressly applied in conformity 
with the condition prescribed by the donor, or devisor, 
provided, also^ That lands donated or devised as afore- 
said, shall be sold or disposed of as required by the last 
section of this act. 

Sec. 7. The trustees of said college alwajs, and all 
other agents when I'equired by the trustees, before en- 
tering upon the duties of their appointments, shall give 
bonds respectively for the security of the corporation, 
in such penal sum and with such securities as the board 
of trustees shall approve. All process against said cor- 
poration shall be l>y summons, and the service of the 
same shall be by leaving an attested copy with the 
treasurer of the college, at least thirty days before the 
return day thereof. 

Sec. 8. The said collegfe and its preparatory depart- 
ments shall be open to all denominations of christians, 
and the profession of any particular religious faith shall 
not be required of those who become students; all per- 
sons however may be suspended or expelled from said 
institution whose habits are idle or vicious, or whose 
moral character is bad. 

Sec. 9. The lands, tenements, and hereditaments to 
be held in perpetuity in virtue of this act, by said insti- 



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tutlon, shall not exceed one thousand and forty acres, 
■pro'vided, lioiue^'er^ That if donation?, grants, or devises 
in land shall from tin^ie to time be made to said corpora- 
tion, over and above one thousand and forty acres, 
Vv^hicli may be held in perpetuity as afortsaid, the same 
may be received and held by such corporation, for the 
period of three years from the date of every such dona- 
tion, grant, or devise ; at the end of which time, if the 
said lands over and above the said one thousand and 
forty acres, shall not have been sold, then and in that 
case the said land so donated, granted or devised, shall 
revert to the owner, grantor, or the heirs of the devi- 
sors of the same. 

Approved Feb. 15, 1837. 



AN ACT TO AxMEND AN ACT TO IKCOHPOKATE KNOX MANUAL 
LABOR COLLEGR 



Seo. 1. Re it enacted by the pf-ople of the State of 
Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, Hiat the 
period of three years, allowed to the Trustees of Knox 
Manual Labor College, by the ninth section of the act, 
to which this is an nmendment, for hoLling donations, 
grants or devises in lands, \)i\ and the same is hereby 
extended to seven years in addition to the aforesaid pe- 
riod of ihne yenrs. aiiythiiig in sa'd section to the con- 
iVAxy notwithstaiidiiig. 

Approved January 18, 1840- 



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AN ACT TO AJIENB TKE CHAETEIl of ZXOX MANUAL LABOR COLLEGE 



Whereas, by an net entitlt^d ^'Au act to incorporate 
Knox Manual Labor College," approved February 
15, 1837, it was provided that if donations, grants, 
or devises in land should, from time to time, be made 
to said coporatioD, over and above one thousand and 
forty acres, (which one thousand and forty acre?, by 
the terms of the said act might be held in perpetuity 
by the said corporation,) the same might be received 
and held by such corporation for tlie period of three 
yeai'S fi-om the date of every such donation, grant or 
devise. Arsd whereas, by an act entitled an act to 
anit-nd the act first aforesaid, approved Januaiy 18, 
Is-lO, the time for holding the said donations, grants 
or devises of lands by the said coporation was ex- 
tended to seven years, in addition to the period of 
three years ; now, therefore. 

Sec. 1 B*^ it enacted by the people of the State of 
Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the 
period dur-ing which the said corpoi-atit^n of Knox 
Manual Lal>or College may hold any such donations, 
grants, ur devise^ inland, be and the same is here})y 
extended for the further term of ten years, in addition 
to the s;tid terms limited in the said two above men- 
tioned acts. 

Skc. 2. That in all cases where the sai<] limitation 
of seven years shall have expired before the passage 
of this act, the said term often years in this act pro- 
vided for, shall be lonstrued to commence arid shall 
commence at the time of the expiration of such seven 
years. 



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Sec. 3. That in all cases "vvhere the said corpora- 
tion may have been the owner or holder of the title to 
any real estate before the expiration of the sa^d term 
of seven years, the right title or interest of the said 
corporation in or to snch real estate shall not be con- 
sti'ned or held to be or to have been impaired or 
defeated, on the account of the said corp )ration hav- 
ing failed to sell or dispose of such real e itate during 
the said term of seven years, but the right, title and 
interest of sucli corporation in and to sucli real estate 
sliall l>e held to ba and shall be as full and perfect, 
■from and after tiie ixpi ration of the said seven years 
duriny- the full terra of ten years in this act mentioned 
as before theexpii-ation of tJie said term of seven years. 

Sec. 4. I'hat all contracts and agreements,' bonds, 
obligations, conveyances and deeds of any real estate 
made or c nte]-ed into concerning any real estate hereto- 
fore owned by said corporation, which may have l)een 
njade or entered into since the expiration of the said 
term of seven years, by the said corporation, sliall be 
deemed and held as good and effectual in law, to all in- 
tents and purposes, to bind, hold, and convey auy inter- 
est which the said corporation might or Vv^ould liave liad 
in such real estate if the said limitation of seven years 
had not expired at the time of the making or entering 
into of any sue-]] contract, agreement, bond, obligation, 
conveyance or din-A]. 

i^ppROVED Feb. 1 J 1851. 



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AN ACT 

TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE KNOX 
MANUAL LABOR COLLEGE, APPROVED FEB. 15, 1837. 



Sec. 1. Be it enacted hy ili.fi people of the Statfi of 
Illinois^ rep/resented in tlte Gen et cd A ■'ji-'^ernt'ltf, That the 
name of the "Knox Manual Labor College," in the town 
of Galesbnro', be and the same is hereby changed to 
Knox College, and all the lands, property, privileges, 
powers, rights and franchises of said Knox Mannal l.a- 
bor College are hereby transferred to and vested in 
Knox College ; and the President, 'J'rustees, Professors, 
and other officers and asfents of said Knox Mannal La- 
bor College, shall continue and be the like otiicers and 
agents, with the like powers and duties, in said Knox 
College. 

Sec. 2. The Board of Trustees of said Knox Col- 
lege shall have power to establish a Female Collegiate 
Department of said College, to be called "The Female 
Collegiate Department of Knox College," for the educa- 
tion and insti-iiction of females. It shall be the duty of 
said })oard to provide sufficient funds to pay for, com- 
plete and furnish the building for said department, now 
in progi-ess of erection on the North side of the College 
Square, in said town of Galesburg, and they shall set 
apart for the benefit of said department of the funds 
derived from the lands donated by Charles Phelps, of 
Cincinnati, to said College, not exceeding Twenty Thou- 
sand Dollars, of which fifteen thousand dollars shall be 



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invested in the manner hereinafter mentioned for the 
endowment and support of a professorship of mathe- 
matics and natural philosophy in said department. 

Sec. 3. It shall he the duty of tlie board of trustees, 
as soon as funds shall come into the treasury of the 
College, not wanted for the present engagements of the 
same, or lor completing the buildings now^ in progress, 
to set apart twenty thousand dollars as an endowment 
for the Presidency of paid College, and fifteen thousand 
dollars each for the endowment therein of the professor- 
ships of Moral Philosophy and Belles Lettres, the pro- 
fessorship of Natural ^Science and the professorship of 
Modern Languages, which shall never be used or applied 
for any other use or pui'pose whatever. Provided^ 
however, That the Board of Trustees shall always have 
power to fix the amount of the salaries of said president, 
and all of the professoi'S and other officers and agents 
of said College, and any surplus from the endowments 
by this act provided, alter payment of the salaries of 
said President and Pi'ofessors^ may be appropriated by 
the Board as other funds of tlie Colle^re. 

Sec. 4. Said funds, including that for the endow- 
ment of a professorship of Marbematics and Natural 
Philosophy in the Female Collegiate Department, shall 
be loaned out on real estate security only, of the double 
value of the amount loaned, without estimating build- 
ings or other perishable improvements, and on lands to 
which the title is understood to be perfect, at a rate of 
interest not exceeding twelve per cent, per annum, paya- 
ble annually in advance: at anytime, whether the debt 
be due or not, if in the opinion of the Hoard of Trus- 
tees or the Executive Committee thereof, the security is 
insufficient, they may require additional security or the 



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immediate payment of the principal and interest of 
said debt. 

Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of said Board to cause 
Five Thousand Dollars to be loaned out as aforesaid 
and at the same rate of interest, the interest of which 
shall be appropriated annually to the increase of the 
Library and Appai'atus of the Colle<?e. 

Sec. G. It sliall be the duty of said Board as soon as 
the funds are not wanted for the purposes aforesaid, 
to provide and cause to be loaned out in the manner 
above provided for, Fifteen Thousand Dollars for the 
endowment of the Principal of the Academic Depart- 
ment of said Collesre, subject to the same corulition as 
providt'd for in salaries ot the Fi'esid* iit .Mhd ]']-ofessors 
in Sec. 3. 

Sec. 7. The Buard of Trustees shall in theii' discre- 
tion have full power to sell any land or other jsropertv 
of said Knox College, or of the FemaU^ Collegiate De- 
partment thereof, or which may hefeafrer be ^•(sted U) 
said College or Department, as th(^ intc^rests of said 
College or Department may irom time to time require, 
and make sufficient and necessary conveyancrg for the 
same, or they may retain all or any of said lands or 
other property, according to their own discretion and 
pleasure, and lease, i-ent, use or occupy the same for the 
uses and purposes of said College and Department, any 
law to the contrary notwithstanding. And he tt fur- 
ther enacted, that all laws conflicting with any of the 
provisions hereof, be and they are hereby repealed. 

Approved February 1(), 1857. 



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